The Green Party of England and Wales voted on Sunday to define Zionism as a form of racism, at the end of its biggest-ever conference at the Brighton Centre. Members backed the motion by 1,022 votes to 813, making the Greens the first major UK party to declare itself...
Andy Burnham’s revelation that he was prepared “to go all the way” in terms of the UK’s relationship with the EU came as a shock to many. While a commitment to rejoining the EU in the next Labour manifesto is far from a given – and the prime minister’s...
More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for injured children in Gaza have been sitting in warehouses in Jordan for more than 18 months. The charities, and the Jordanian aid organisation storing them, say Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries have kept them out. Israel says it has...
The Green Party of England and Wales opens its autumn conference in Brighton today. It runs at the Brighton Centre from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 October, and around 3,000 people are expected to attend. The party says it will be its biggest conference ever, after a year of...
The Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council has written to the Government to ask for greater joint working and local compassionate solutions following the Government’s decision to close a local hotel housing asylum seeking women and families.
Councillor Bella Sankey has contacted Anna Turley, the Minister for Border Security...
The Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council has welcomed Government sanctions on trade and action on services with companies operating in illegal West Bank settlements and demanded the East Sussex pension fund linked to council staff pensions move immediately to divest from any companies operating in illegal settlements...
The Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council will be holding their next surgery at Jubilee Library, in West Hill & North Laine ward.
Councillor Bella Sankey will be at the library in Jubilee Street between 1pm and 3pm on Tuesday 6 October – with appointment slots available for residents...
An Israeli-made documentary examining the war in Gaza and allegations of systematic civilian killings has won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, after receiving a record-breaking standing ovation at its premiere.
NAZA, directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was awarded the prize at the...
8 September 2026 | Brighton Journal
Britain's immigration debate has taken a dramatic turn this week after around 140 migrants arrived by small boat on the Portsmouth coast, in one of the most unusual Channel crossings seen in recent years. The boat had travelled from Normandy, a considerably longer route...
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip in phases. After Israel officially rejected the plan on...
